EUCALYPTUS PULVERULENTA—VICTORIA. 54) | 
leaves of mature trees of ZH. pulverulenta and HL. Stuartiana and 
tabulated the results : 
: Length. | Breadth. Petiole. 
Name. Locality. 
In relative proportions, 
E. pulverulenta............ Marulan, N.S.W..| 1°6 ls Sessile. 
EK. pulverulenta, var. Pilot Range, Vic.. lig Sessile. 
lanceolata. * 3° 
Do Ovens District, Vic.) 4° le 
Do Ovens River, Vic. ing Ie 8} 
Do Buch anerseecssstesn 6° ils Sessile. 
Do Darlimurla, Vic....| 11: ile 33 
sea. rae ley (Ge ike 8 
Do | Monkey Crk., Vic. v7: 1: a 
Do IMIGESI VIC casweceer 6" te Sessile. 
HE. Stuartiana ............ BUY Ips eee ceeeee=- a5 ils 5 
1D yoy Pe Sa seh aress Pees Black Flat, Vic. ... 8: ik dD 
DON wn osaiatects IBUGWOOd) jo. .4.esese: 10° slic 6 
Dior eheneccerie: Croydon mark wce: 6° lis ‘8 
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* Labelled by F.v.M. as E. cinerea. 
Properly these data ought to have been extended to include a 
greater number of measurements. But even as they are, they 
suggest a gradual divergence from the New South Wales type in 
coming south-westward from the habitat of LHucalyptus pul- 
verulenta. So far the discussion of Hucalyptus pulverulenta 
negatives the belief that the New South Wales type has so far 
been found in Victoria. Instead there is found a marked variety 
having a young form similar to the type of the species, and an 
adult form with opposed lanceolate leaves. Properly speaking, 
there are in Victoria two varieties each of which is marked by the 
abovementioned characters. 
But in one variety, namely, ‘“ lanceolata,” the leaf-stalk is some- 
times short or absent, and the base of the leaf more or less rounded. 
In the other variety, namely, Hucalyptus Stwartiana, the 
petiole is comparatively long, and the base of the leaf is much 
attenuated. 
The ash-coloured or white mealiness of the leaves,-stem, and 
buds is not so apparent in some localities in Gippsland as in trees 
near Beechworth. It is absent, or only seen exceptionally, in 
£. Stuartiana in a mature state. But in the young forms of 
both it is perhaps as well exemplified as in the type of the species 
A third but more distant variety is the eucalypt, to which the 
aborigines of Gippsland apply the name of “ But But,” and which 
Baron v. Mueller has included with #. Stuartiana. 
